Posts by Ernest_P_Worrel

I recently bought an M11x from Alienware and it's great besides the gfx drivers issues im having and there's a small ding on the case. About the gfx issues problem is the custom driver it shipped with is built off a really old driver for...

I'm also going to be getting one of these when it comes out and id prefer the screen closer to 11'' than 12'' just because even the smaller amounts of battery life do count. It sounds like its gonna be a great little laptop and you can...

It seems to me that its only first person shooters that require the really expensive graphics cards. I'd agree with who ever said that u don't need the best to game on a pc, and u prolly already need a pc anyways, add in the ridiculous...

Me likey Zenwalk, PC-BSD good too >.>

I like to recommend Zenwalk to people cuz Ubuntu already gets thrown around on here. It's very good with using system resources well (using xfce) and you dont have to mess around with repositories to get mp3's and region free dvd's to...

Doesnt really sound like its something that would be supported. But if u get lucky on searching it in google or whatever you choose to use then more power to you.

Try Ubuntu, Zenwalk and PC-BSD? I like all three of those. Ubuntu and PC-BSD are straightforward in their installs. But for Zenwalk you have to use fdisk when you boot from the disk. Ok when it boots you type root to enter root mode....

Hmm well I tried the 2006 live cd again and now the internet is working this time :/. Well atleast the cable internet will work on the gentoo 2006 live cd but not the wireless on my laptop.

Lan, wlan or both? I've got a netgear wlan g pcmcia card that I dont use, since I have a 2200 b/g built in (came with my wireless g router) but thats prolly not what u want :/.

They sure did a great job of parting ways with freebsd: "The Apple operating system, Mac OS X, is based on a rock-solid, open source UNIX foundation that integrates features from the state-of-the-art FreeBSD...